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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Prewitt, Kenneth (1936-....)
Titre(s) : What is your race? [Texte électronique] : the census and our flawed efforts to classify Americans / Kenneth Prewitt
Publication : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, cop. 2013
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Note(s) : "America is preoccupied with race statistics--perhaps more than any other nation.
Do these statistics illuminate social reality and produce coherent social policy,
or cloud that reality and confuse social policy? Does America still have a color line?
Who is on which side? Does it have a different 'race' line--the nativity line--separating
the native born from the foreign born? You might expect to answer these and similar
questions with the government's 'statistical races.' Not likely, observes Kenneth
Prewitt, who shows why the way we count by race is flawed. Prewitt calls for radical
change. The nation needs to move beyond a race classification whose origins are in
discredited eighteenth-century race-is-biology science, a classification that once
defined Japanese and Chinese as separate races, but now combines them as a statistical
'Asian race.' One that once tried to divide the 'white race' into 'good whites' and
'bad whites, ' and that today cannot distinguish descendants of Africans brought in
chains four hundred years ago from children of Ethiopian parents who eagerly immigrated
twenty years ago. Contrary to common sense, the classification says there are only
two ethnicities in America--Hispanics and non-Hispanics. But if the old classification
is cast aside, is there something better? What Is Your Race? clearly lays out the
steps that can take the nation from where it is to where it needs to be. It's not
an overnight task--particularly the explosive step of dropping today's race question
from the census--but Prewitt argues persuasively that radical change is technically
and politically achievable, and morally necessary."--Jacket.
Sujet(s) : Démographie -- États-Unis
Ethnicité
Population
Recensement
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781400846795
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43695832t
Notice n° :
FRBNF43695832
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Table des matières : Introduction and overview -- Classification before counting: the statistical races
-- The compromise that made the republic and the nation's first statistical race --
Race science captures the prize, the U.S. Census -- How many white races are there?
-- Racial justice finds a policy tool -- When you have a hammer: statistical races
misused -- Pressures mount -- The problem of the twenty-first century is the problem
of the color line as it intersects the nativity line -- Where are we exactly? -- Getting
from where we are to where we need to be.